[Chimera-users] Feature request: changing default color for H-bonds

[Miguel Ortiz Lombardía]

Le 21/10/12 19:27, Elaine Meng a écrit :
> Hi Miguel,
> This isn't exactly what you were asking, but thought I would mention that if you use the command, you can specify color (and linewidth and many other options) directly, for example:
> 
> findhb color orange linewidth 4
> 
> <http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/findhbond.html>
> Best,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
> On Oct 21, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardía wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think the subject of the message is explicit enough...
>> Perhaps the option of having a default color different than cyan for
>> hydrogen bonds already exists, but I have failed to find it. I have this
>> line in my .chimera/preferences file:
>>
>> 'FindHBonds': {'line width': 2.0},
>>
>> So I tried to include something like 'color: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)' (or
>> bond color or H-bond color...) in the FindHBonds dictionary, alas
>> without success.
>>
>> Let me give some rationale: I prefer having a white background, against
>> which cyan is not really very visible when the structure gets complex.
>> Not to me eyes at least.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> -- 
>> Miguel
> 
> 

Hi Elaine,

Thank you very much. That may be good enough for me; I have created an
alias with my favourite combo:

alias ^myhb findhb twocolor true color black linewidth 2

For more sophisticated use I can always go and change the values in the
dialogue window.

Best regards,

-- 
Miguel

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